DESCENTRALIZED POEMS, 2020-
Decentralized poems explore language through an algorithmic lens, seeking to reflect in live time the neurobiological process of language formation as an innate and incarnate pattern in the body. Far from being a linear structural as we usually imagine it, language has a neurobiological history in three dimensions: the neurons that encode language come from older cells that process the feeling of being a body in space, and therefore, language is intimately tied to the body and movement. As such, language is ever shifting, spacial, and deeply corporeal.
Written in the computer program Processing, the poems are built with randomizing functions that questions the permanence of meaning and thought, making words at once something concrete as they accumulate and intangible as they dissipate.
Lastly, the poems usually contain words related to the body and mental health, suggesting that language can be a healing agent. This is evidenced by the fact that the simple act of giving language to emotions triggers a transition from a limbic state of reactivity to a state of calm and mindfulness.